Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system should have detected the incoming missiles, but the ship's only warning came just seconds before impact when a lookout spotted the first Exocet. To counter such problems, Israel is developing the Barak, an antimissile missile that is launched vertically into the air and then dives down to knock out a sea skimmer as far as several miles away; the U.S. has contributed $10 million toward the project...
...Yorker, where during the past eleven years he has written occasional humor (Dating Your Mom, a collection, appeared last year) and factual stories, including the five pieces gathered together in Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody. On the surface, it would appear that Frazier does not exactly knock himself out with work. In fact, he confirms this impression, openly admitting to lallygagging on the job. In the first sentence of "An Angler at Heart," he confesses that he has often "taken a walk from the offices of The New Yorker along Forty-third Street -- across Fifth Avenue, across Madison Avenue, across...
...Then again, you could go to the French and pick up a couple of their old Mirages. You'd save major bucks. Or you could go to Israel or South Africa and pick up a Kfir or a Cheetah, which are basically knock-offs of the same thing...
Before entering, it is useful to poke about -- that is if it is in a season when the wind doesn't knock you flat. The wind is nearly always remarkable west of the Mississippi, but each time it forces an occasional visitor into the posture of a boomerang, leaning as far forward as possible in order to gain ground, feels like the end of the world. In any event, the wind doesn't "sing" through the Aleppo pines in these parts so much as it tries to uproot them (the hardest evidence of its vigor is on the barn...
...education and facilities that Harvard today provides them. Why should we, the women of Harvard-Radcliffe, shove aside the women's college as if it represented a sordid past? Radcliffe has always provided the finest education and services, and still does. Granted, every woman at Harvard does not knock herself out to take advantage of all Radcliffe has to offer, but if she wants...